Tang Yau Hoong

I recently came across an artist while looking through a graphic design magazine I subscribe to called Computer Arts. His name is Tang Yau Hoong, and he is a graphic designer from Malaysia, which is where he is still based now.

 I quote.. "I love to play with negative space and illusion in my artwork. My illustrations are mostly conceptual, surreal and minimalist." - Tang Yau Hoong.

His work is very good and this idea about the use of negative space is something that really interests me . Its very clever and its almost like a puzzle for the brain to look at. 


Here are some examples of Hoongs work. These examples are not commissioned piece's of work, though he do commissions as well as his own pieces. 

This one is called 'Coexistence' and it is about the relationship between our cities and buildings and the nature that we have built it on and the nature that surrounds it. I really like the use of colours in this picture, the watercolour effect means the colours merge into each other nicely and he has stuck to colours close together on the colour spectrum. I think it works really well.

This one is called night and day which is a fitting title as the picture pretty much speaks for its self.

'Little red riding hood'

'Lost Memory'